Many causes of autism, including environmental and genetic factors, have been recognized or proposed, but understanding of the theory of causation of autism...

and autism spectrum disorder has shown that there is no relationship between the two, causal or otherwise, and that vaccine ingredients do not cause autism...

heritability of autism is the proportion of differences in expression of autism that can be explained by genetic variation; if the heritability of a condition...

fraction of autism cases may be traceable to genetic causes that are highly heritable but not inherited: that is, the mutation that causes the autism is not...

autism was instead a complex and highly heritable disorder whose core aspects have distinct causes which often co-occur. The exact causes of autism are...

Autism Speaks Inc. is an American non-profit autism awareness organization and the largest autism research organization in the United States. It sponsors...

promoting the incorrect claim that vaccination causes autism have asserted that the mercury in thiomersal is the cause. There is no scientific evidence to support...

history of autism spans over a century; autism has been subject to varying treatments, being pathologized or being viewed as a beneficial part of human...

The mechanisms of autism are the molecular and cellular processes believed to cause or contribute to the symptoms of autism. Multiple processes are hypothesized...

of autism is the study of the incidence and distribution of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A 2022 systematic review of global prevalence of autism spectrum...

Claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism have been extensively investigated and found to be false. The link was first suggested in the early...

Syndromic autism represents about 25% of the total ASD cases. In most[quantify] cases, its etiology is known. Monogenic disorders are one of the causes of syndromic...

aspects of autism or sociology of autism come into play with recognition of autism, approaches to its support services and therapies, and how autism affects...

Diagnoses of autism have become more frequent since the 1980s, which has led to various controversies about both the cause of autism and the nature of the diagnoses...

"awareness" of the condition and for independent research on the causes of autism. 2002 United Kingdom Autism Awareness Year The Autism Awareness Campaign of 2002...

biomedical causes of autism spectrum conditions, to evaluate promising interventions for autistic people, and to improve the health and well-being of autistic...

development of an animal model of autism is one approach researchers use to study potential causes of autism. Given the complexity of autism and its etiology...

are particularly unusual, specific, or niche. Autism rights advocates and psychologists say this binary of acceptable "passions" and pathologised "obsessions"...

known as Bettelheim's theory of autism, is a largely abandoned psychological fringe theory that the cause of autism is a lack of parental, and in particular...

claimed that the passage of proteins through a "leaky" gut is the cause of autism. Evidence for claims that a leaky gut causes autism is weak and conflicting...

several genetic disorders, perhaps due to an overlap in genetic causes. About 10–15% of autism cases have an identifiable Mendelian (single-gene) condition...

High-functioning autism (HFA) was historically an autism classification to describe a person who exhibited no intellectual disability but otherwise showed...

advocates the scientifically disproven view that autism and related disorders are primarily caused by environmental factors, particularly vaccines. The...

Nonverbal autism, also called nonspeaking autism, is a subset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) where the person does not learn how to speak. One study...

topics of autism. Mutations in the PST genes account for the genetic causes of the deficiency, of which single nucleotide polymorphism and methylation of promoters...

Autism therapies include a wide variety of therapies that help people with autism, or their families. Such methods of therapy seek to aid autistic people...

demand avoidance (EDA) is a proposed disorder, and proposed sub-type of autism spectrum disorder, defined by characteristics such as a demand avoidance—which...

unsubstantiated hypothesis in evolutionary psychology regarding the causes of autism spectrum and schizophrenia spectrum disorders, first presented by Bernard...

Autism Is a World is an American short subject documentary film by Academy Award Producer and Director Gerardine Wurzburg and allegedly written by Sue...

(E–S) theory is a controversial theory on the psychological basis of autism and male–female neurological differences originally put forward by English...